{
  "id": 17687,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/uk-children-explicit-deepfake-images-ai",
  "title": "Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves",
  "summary": "Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce. The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or “faked” in some way,",
  "authors": "Dan Milmo Global technology editor",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "misinformation,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "uk",
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T07:00:39.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17687",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/uk-children-explicit-deepfake-images-ai",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}